Affirmative Action

As required by its status as a federal contractor, the university is committed to affirmative action in employment. Affirmative action does not require the hiring or retention of unqualified individuals or provide preferential treatment. The university’s Affirmative Action Program includes those policies, practices, and procedures that the university implements to ensure that all qualified applicants and employees are receiving an equal opportunity for recruitment, selection, advancement, and every other term and privilege associated with employment. In compliance with the law, the university maintains affirmative action programs for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans. A fundamental premise underlying affirmative action is that, over time, absent discrimination, a contractor's workforce will generally reflect the gender, racial, and ethnic profile of the labor pools from which the contractor recruits and selects. The affirmative action plan is a vehicle for examining workplace and labor pool statistics and making policy or procedural changes to recruitment, hiring, or retention efforts in those job groups, if any, which statistically indicate a concern.